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Soft Cast Configurations

Soft
Cast is
a research project exploring the idea of supple behavioural architecture,
capable of adapting and transforming through the active coupling of advanced
computational tools and material behaviour. The studio’s research is currently
being explored in a proto-type that is to be tested as a full-scale structure.
Through an active system of light and deformable textile structures, this
project explores a digital materiality that is intrinsic part of the process of
shaping space evolving through force fields, matter and changing phase
strategies.

Generative
configurations are scenario based organizational strategies of the first full-scale
flexible formwork structure embedded within a landscape. The research seeks to contribute to an
evolving discourse that explores matter as computable and life like agent. This
model challenges recent discourse through an active integration of material and
social behavior examining a scenario and proto-typical environment of
interaction. This architecture seeks to move beyond form and style and consider
architecture as an active material agent.